Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
Thanks to author Lois Peterson for inviting me as a guest to the Festival Of Trees event today. I had a ton of fun wandering around the event, seeing authors give workshops and talks, attending some of the awards ceremonies, chatting with other attendees. And WOW, I’ve never seen kids SO EXCITED . . .
Thanks to school librarian Lynda Shoup for the Stylish Blogger Award: Heh. The award immediately inspired the cartoon above. Apparently I’m supposed to tell you all 7-10 things about myself and then pass the award along to someone else. So here are some things about me that you may or may not know: . . .
Writer’s Block by DebsAndErrol Above: A fun song from Debs & Errol (a.k.a. Deborah Linden & Errol Elumir). Errol & Deborah are looking for new song ideas, by the way. If you’d like them to come up with some more writing-related songs, do go over to their CD Song Contest page and post your song ideas! . . .
WriterJust posted a Mother’s Day comic over on Writer Unboxed, for those interested.
Toronto author Hélène Boudreau writes fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. I first met Hélène at a Torkidlit group tweetup and have continued to be impressed by her never-ending positive creative energy, ability to juggle multiple projects AND her online promotion skills. Her tween novel, Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings was . . .
I had a lot of fun at last night’s tweetup of the Toronto Area Middle Grade & Young Adult Author Group. We’ve moved to a new location: The Bedford Academy near Avenue Road and Bloor. The place has a laid-back pub atmosphere; I recognized it from when I attended the National Cartoonists’ Christmas . . .
Adrienne Kress is a Toronto born actor and author who loves to play make-believe. She also loves hot chocolate. And cheese. And her cat Atticus. She is the author of two middle grade books: Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate (Weinstein Books) as well as a theatre graduate of the . . .
At first I was torn between participating in Story A Day May and NaPiBoWriWee, but then I realized that I can do both. I’m using these two challenges to come up a month’s worth of picture book story ideas. I’m aiming for an average on one picture book story a day. These stories . . .
I feel very lucky to be part of the MiG Writers’ Critique Group. Recently, one of our members debuted a nonfiction book: SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD– Discover Amazing Monuments To Civilizations. Carmella Van Vleet was kind (or brave?) enough to let her fellow MiG writers interview her. Do visit our MiG Writers’ blog for . . .
National Picture Book Writing Week starts tomorrow! Founder Paul Yoo explains the event… What exactly is NaPiBoWriWee? NaPiBoWriWee stands for National Picture Book Writing Week. The goal is to write 7 picture books in 7 days. I have to clarify this by stating that I do NOT think picture book writing is . . .